Ebony McKenna – författare

You've written a sensational young adult manuscript. Now you need to edit it and turn it into a great novel. I will give you all the tools you need to slash and burn backstory, tighten the structure and deliver a brilliant ending. I'm not going to lie, it will be a lot of work. But you'll be better for it. I mean, your *characters* will be better for it.

The essential writing, research & publishing guide you need.3 books in 1. Backburning Backstory, The 13 Main Scenes and The Staircase of Turning Points.I'm not going to lie. This book is going to hurt your brain.But it's for your own good.First, I'll show you how to recognise backstory in your novel (usually the first few chapters) and sternly encourage you to cut it all out.Then you'll pretend it doesn't apply to you.But it does.And then, after a bit more denial, you're going to remove that backstory, out of spite, just to show me I'm wrong.But a miracle will happen. With the weight of all that backstory out of the way, the pace of your manuscript is going to race along!Then we'll *really* get down to work, making sure you've got your 13 Main Scenes to deliver maximum satisfaction to your romance reader.Finally, just when you think you've broken your brain, I'm going to show you how to create The Staircase of Turning Points, to really punch up your most important scenes.The end result is you'll be exhausted, but your romance novel will be amazing!

She ran away from witch school. She came home with a cursed Scottish ferret. Now someone wants to kill the Duke — and a talking weasel is the only witness.Ondine de Groot has had it with Psychic Summercamp. No more astral projection exams, no more howling at the moon — she's fifteen, it's summer, and she deserves to be having fun. So she grabs her suitcase, scoops up the suspiciously friendly ferret who followed her everywhere, and makes a break for home. Simple enough. Except the ferret talks. In a thick Scottish brogue. And he isn't just any ferret — he's Hamish McPhee, Laird of Glen Logan, a real man trapped in a weasel's body by a very offended witch. A witch who turns out to be Ondine's great-aunt.Back at the family's chaotic hotel in Brugel — a wonderfully odd little Eastern European duchy where talking animals are practically normal and plütz vodka flows freely — Ondine barely has time to process her impossible new companion before Shambles overhears something far worse than an embarrassing family secret. There's a murder plot against the Duke himself, and the only way to stop it is for a flustered teenage girl to march into a palace and convince royalty to trust a ferret's testimony. Can Ondine hold her nerve, keep her impossible secrets, and save a duke — before a cursed Scottish mustelid with terrible table manners ruins absolutely everything?